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Re: Seeking Cygwin installer for the
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Seeking Cygwin installer for the
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:04:30 -0400
- References: <20010919214928.25844.qmail@web20003.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:49:28PM -0700, Joshua Franklin wrote:
>Read my post again. I was working on less than 10MB network space.
>The installer fits on a floppy. It's basically just the dll, ash,
>bash, and a few shell-utils so that somebody can figure out what cygwin
>looks like without having to do the big download. Doesn't even use
>full packages. It would be pointless to put that kind of minimal
>functionality into setup.exe
Copy setup.exe, a modified setup.ini, and whatever other packages you
need. You can create your own distribution.
setup.exe just reads a simple ascii file and straight tar files.
It sounds like you wouldn't even have to modify sources to do
what you want.
cgf
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